You have a deep desire for
health & wellbeing.
LeaderWise is here to help.
Please note that LeaderWise will be closed on Friday, April 7.
Healthy Leadership Depends on
Healthy People
When you are overwhelmed
and don’t know how to break through a myriad of emotions,
troubling thoughts and intense challenges, you can’t be a healthy leader.
Highly Trained Psychologists, Therapists & Consultants
Proprietary 10-Competencies Assessment
Tool for Leaders
Experts in Training Leaders
YOU WANT TO FEEL, DO,
AND BE BETTER
As a leader, you have a deep desire to be a healthy and effective leader. But sometimes the distress within ourselves and our relationships can become overwhelming. In the midst of this distress, it’s hard to find a way through it, and we need the support of professionals.
LeaderWise exists to support you. Through three core areas of work, we equip leaders with the tools they need to live healthy lives.
First, our counseling services support individuals, couples, families, and groups in reaching your wellness goals. We use only highly trained psychologists and therapists to provide counseling and assessments for leaders.
In addition to our counseling services, we have a proprietary 10-Competencies Assessment Tool for Leaders that helps to identify strengths and vulnerabilities for leaders. With this tool, leaders can become better equipped to serve in their own context.
Finally, our leadership development division works to support congregations and their leaders with workshops, retreats, and cohort experiences. These programs are led by congregational leadership experts. They are fun, rewarding, and effective.
YOUR PATH TO HEALTH & WELLBEING
1 CONNECT
Set up a call to share your
challenges and opportunities
2 ACTION
We’ll recommend
next steps
3 WORK
We’ll work together to
support your unique needs
“This process has helped me to ... gain insight on why I am the way I am, why I think the way I think, why I do what I do, and where my strengths lie ... I was able to ‘dig deeper’ within myself because of questions that were posed to me to get me to think differently.
Great environment, great listeners, and a great platform to discuss my desires, problems, and concerns.
It all was very helpful, thorough, and well thought out.”
Current Opportunities with LeaderWise
Navigating Turbulent Times with Emotional Intelligence
What’s more predictive of effectiveness in the workplace than your academic training, administrative acumen, or native intelligence? This workshop will give you a clear understanding of how emotional intelligence relates to leadership in ministry in specific ways. Learn more about this workshop >
LeaderWise Boundaries Training: a 5-hour online workshop
LeaderWise’s online boundaries training workshop is lively and interactive, full of reflection and conversation. Attendees have given us feedback that our boundaries training was a great experience, AND caused them to re-evaluate some of their own practices. Find details here >
Confidence in Conflict: Navigating the Struggle
Conflict is everywhere in our world today. This workshop will help you understand conflict more deeply and give you the space and time to think about your conflict styles (using an assessment prior to the workshop) and how to develop new skills in conflict. Learn more >
Managing Conflict Before It Happens: The Spiritual Art and Ministerial Practice of Effective Administration
Join this workshop to develop a more fully integrated sense of your identity as an administrator within your ministry. Managing Conflict Before it Happens will help you reimagine the work of administration to see it as an integral part of your pastoral ministry. Click here for more information >
A Path to Belonging
Overcoming Clergy Loneliness
In A Path to Belonging: Overcoming Clergy Loneliness, Mary Kay DuChene and Mark Sundby argue that clergy need to address their experience of loneliness. First, loneliness can interfere with leadership effectiveness. Second, it offers a ministry opportunity to connect with people around the topic of loneliness. But clergy must first deal with their own loneliness and begin to experience the healing balm of social connection.
Each chapter begins with a case study that illustrates an aspect of clergy loneliness. DuChene and Sundby draw on original research on loneliness among clergy across denominations, first administering the state-of-the-art inventory to measure loneliness and then following up with qualitative interviews. They also draw on years of experience working directly with clergy and congregations. The authors then offer tools and remedies for the path toward a healthy sense of contentment and belonging. The book also explores what judicatory leaders, congregations, and friends and family of clergy can do to support clergy.
By normalizing and reframing loneliness, however, A Path to Belonging not only suggests ways to overcome the loneliness present in ministry. DuChene and Sundby propose an even larger vision: Perhaps clergy can also help the congregations they serve become social connectors in their communities and thereby begin to solve the epidemic of loneliness in the United States.
Organizations That Work with LeaderWise
Episcopal Church in Minnesota
John Calvin Presbytery
Church of the Lutheran Brethren
